On Pause: Now What? Practial Strategies for Navigating a Career Pause
Thu, Sep 24
|Virtual Event
Career pauses can bring uncertainty, emotional exhaustion, and difficult questions about identity, direction, and what comes next. This session provides practical strategies for navigating career transitions in healthy and more sustainable ways.
Time & Location
Sep 24, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Virtual Event
About the event
Session Brief
Career pauses can feel uncertain, disorienting, and deeply personal, especially for high-performing professionals accustomed to constant productivity and forward momentum. Whether you are on pause for caregiving responsibilities, health challenges, layoffs, burnout, or intentional transition, pauses often create pressure to immediately “figure out what’s next” while quietly navigating fear, exhaustion, identity shifts, and uncertainty.
This session helps participants approach career pauses with greater intention, emotional grounding, and long-term perspective. Rather than viewing pause as lost time, attendees will explore how to use this season productively and strategically through personal development, skill building, relationship maintenance, reflection, and sustainable routines that support both well-being and future professional positioning.
Participants will learn practical and healthy behaviors that strengthen resilience during transition, including maintaining professional visibility, investing in personal growth, revitalizing creativity and purpose through hobbies or passion projects, and building support systems through coaching, mentorship, and trusted professional relationships.
The session…